Consultant (Procurement Specialist)

Job title: Consultant (Procurement Specialist)

Location: London

Working: Hybrid – mandatory two days in the office, with others as required by client work.

The Role

We are a collaborative, supportive, pioneering, and high-performing global team with a passion and purpose to support, inspire, and transform the lives of marketers. We help increase marketing effectiveness through better integrated marketing, by fixing and fine-tuning our clients’ marketing resources.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Marketing Procurement Consultant with an entrepreneurial spirit located in the UK, to join our team. You will help lead our purpose, build business capabilities, and transform the lives of marketers through client projects spanning all areas of our services — marketing operations, marketing skills & capabilities, marketing technology, and agency management.

You will be responsible for leading and managing exciting and complex client projects, including (but not limited to): running pitches, facilitating workshops, designing new marketing organizational structures and processes, helping create new tech and data architectures, writing presentations, conducting client interviews, and promoting Flock services.

Our projects are large, complex, and global in nature. We want to work with people who are:

• Naturally collaborative and thrive in a flat, flexible organisation.
• Thoughtful communicators, fostering meaningful relationships across our diverse partner community.
• Caring and inclusive leaders — committed to learning and leveraging our differences as strengths.
• Pragmatic and optimistic, with energy and enthusiasm for what’s next shining through in everything they do.
• Curious and courageous — using deep business insight to drive innovation.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Minimum of 10 years’ hands-on contracting experience and deep knowledge of U.S. marketing industry best practices.
• Strong understanding of, and experience with, the latest industry best practices (WFA/ANA/ISBA — transparency, audit rights, personnel, representation, data, AI, responsible sourcing), and have developed your own recent experience contracting for marketing services across all agency types.
• Strong ability to large-scale contract reviews to develop best practices.
• Experience across multiple advertiser category sectors.
• Detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Ability to work independently without guidance.
• Professional demeanour with proven ability to quickly build trusted, senior-level client relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Clients: Lead client projects with things such as (but not limited to) workshop preparation & logistics, presentation writing, client interviews, information gathering, conduct research proposal writing, problem solving and cross selling Flock services.
• Management: Managing project teams’ team to ensure that all work is delivered to the highest standard ensuring on-time, in-budget delivery. Contribute to the building of Flock’s Culture.
• Thought Leadership: Intellectual and product leadership within your practice area. Create and inspire content in partnership with sales and marketing channel experts (CRM, social, etc.).
• Commercial: Deliver on business growth targets ensuring that we constantly add value to our clients and support the revenue growth of Flock.
• Strategy: Drive our Partner integration — we have partnerships with production and media auditors. Contribute to the development of Agency Management Tools (Flock Agency Scoping Tool, Flock Agency Appraisal Tool, and Flock Media Health Check Tool).

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits, including private health cover (dental/optical), employer/employee pension match, and flexible working.
• Personal development and well-being fund.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Continuous formal and informal training to acquire and build specialist skills.
• Opportunity to work with leading local and global companies.
• International and multicultural environment — we are a global consultancy.
• Dynamic, fun, and collaborative working environment.

Flock and Our Culture:
Flock, the marketing transformation company, launched in London in January 2013 and has since won a succession of marketing transformation assignments globally. Our clients include Mars, Pepsi, Pandora, Unilever, Dyson, Bacardi, Beiersdorf, Bel, Blackrock, Danone, McDonald’s, Verizon, Meta, Ocado, Gore, Pladis, among others. We currently serve over 44 countries from three hub offices. Our tools represent a growing part of our revenue and are planned to make up over a third of our business.

At Flock, we put the customer and the future at the heart of our clients’ strategies. Every organisation is unique, so we build bespoke programmes tailored to individual needs, rooted in the real-world marketing experience of our senior consultants. We are relentless in our pursuit and application of world-class best practice.

Flock is warm, fun, rewarding, challenging, and fast-paced — where hard work and dedication are central to who we are. We deliver exceptional quality, outstanding service, honesty, and added value to our clients. We expect anyone joining to maintain these high standards and uphold an exceptional work ethic. Internally, we support and uplift each other, working collaboratively and building on each other’s strengths.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

To apply please contact : Careers@flock-associates.com

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